Originally Posted by
Jetbee
I keep reading on here how the U.S. Constitution and everyone's civil liberties are being undermined by DHS when, in fact, it is your voting representatives who gave them the right to operate "outside" of the Constitution. It is the same in Canada -- the Members of Parliament voted to let airport security trump citizens rights.
It does no good to take it out on the TSA or DHS because they are operating within their mandate. Until all of us keep hammering our elected officials about this ridiculous bulls**t, nothing is going to change. We all need to keep phoning and writing and harassing them until they get the message -- loud and clear.
Writing closed letters to politicians about political issues does no good. A few letters are easily ignored. When they get on TV and are asked hard questions that make them look like jack-a**es then they take notice. That hurts their re-elections chances and that is really all they care about.
I am not saying writing to your politicians is useless, if you have a non-political issue they might be very useful.